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‘Do the right thing’ as Mayor asks Londoners to keep masked
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has set himself on a collision course with anti-vaxxers and right-wing self-proclaimed “libertarians” by insisting that bus, Tube and tram passengers will still be expected to wear masks, even after the government relaxes its so-called “Plan … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Labour, London, Mayor, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport for London
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South Croydon one of 56 postcodes hit by covid mail delays
Households in the CR2, South Croydon, postcode, West Norwood (SE27) and West Wickham (BR4) are among 56 postal areas warned that their mail deliveries could face delays because of covid-related staff shortages. Royal Mail issued the urgent warning yesterday. Delivery … Continue reading
Posted in Business, South Croydon
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon South, Royal Mail, South Croydon, South Croydon DO
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Mayday! Hospital workers protest against lack of covid sick pay
Porters and cleaners at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital are to stage a protest later this month after their employer – private NHS contractor G4S – stopped paying covid positive hospital workers’ occupational sick pay. The employers refusing to pay staff for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, GMB, Mayday Hospital
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Christmas presence: local NHS delivered 250,000 covid jabs
NHS staff and volunteers across the South West London Clinical Commissioning Group area worked long hours through the festive period, including on Christmas Day, administering nearly 250,000 jabs to help protect the public from covid-19 – the biggest vaccination programme … Continue reading
Care provider to recruit 50 assistants to meet covid demand
Bluebird Care, the home care provider with an office on Brighton Road, is to recruit another 50 care assistants in 2022, in part, at least, to meet the additional demand for the company’s services created by the covid-19 pandemic. Bluebird … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Care Homes, Health
Tagged Bluebird Care, Bluebird Care Croydon, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon
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Here was the news: Inside Croydon’s most-read articles of 2021
All the numbers are in, counted and verified… Here’s the top 10 most-read Inside Croydon articles of 2021. In reverse order…
Posted in Inside Croydon
Tagged 2021, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon
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Croydon 2021: voter apathy, petrol queues and dodgy deals
DID WE HAVE NEWS FOR YOU: In our final instalment of our annual review of the stories that attracted the most attention in 2021, we reach the season of missed opportunities and not much fruitfulness, as far as Croydon Labour … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, 2022 Croydon Mayor election, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Fairfield Halls, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Planning, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed MP, Stuart King, Tony Newman, Wendy's
Tagged 2022 Mayoral election, Brick by Brick, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Croydon Mayoral election 2022, Croydon Park Hotel, Democratically Elected Mayor of Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Steve Reed OBE, STUART KING, Terrapin Group, Tony Newman, Westfield
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Covid emergency ‘surge hub’ is to be built in south London
England is hurtling towards a New Year surge of covid positive cases, thanks in large measure to the do-nothing government of Boris Johnson refusing to implement additional precautions over the Christmas period, coupled with its failure to supply enough testing … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Health
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, coronavirus, Covid-19, St George's Hospital, St George's Tooting, Tory
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Hospital visits are still allowed but ‘kept under close review’
The NHS trust which oversees the running of Croydon’s Mayday Hospital says that visits to in-patients are still allowed, but restrictions are “being kept under close review”. The latest spike in covid-19 infection numbers, mainly caused by the spread of … Continue reading
Croydon 2021: a tale of lockdowns, let-downs and meltdowns
DID WE HAVE NEWS FOR YOU: Croydon entered 2021 as a bankrupt borough, yet there was worse still to come. Inside Croydon has been there, reporting on every twist and turn of events around the cash-strapped council as it entered … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Rachel Flowers, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Report in the Public Interest, Simon Hall, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged #Binmageddon, Alison Butler, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Fransoy Hewitt, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Peter Bingle, Regina Road, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, South Norwood, STUART KING, Terrapin Group, Tony Newman
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Lean times in January for the Clocktower’s arthouse cinema
The uncertainty and concerns over the Omicron strain of covid-19, and the dithering by central government over the measures to be taken by the hospitality and entertainment sectors, has prompted one venue to take its fate into its own hands … Continue reading
The day I signed up with the NHS in the fight against covid
What’s it like on the frontline of the pandemic battle? ROBERT WARD found out yesterday, when he volunteered for duties at one of the borough’s largest vaccination centres It’s been a while since I set a 6.30am alarm, but needs … Continue reading
Posted in Centrale, Health, Robert Ward, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Robert Ward
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No encore for Krippner after covid outbreak in Minster choir
A special BBC Radio recording of a Choral Evensong, planned to be held at Croydon Minster tomorrow, has been cancelled after the musical director, Dr Ronny Krippner, and several members of the choir tested positive for covid-19. The news is … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Croydon Minster, Music
Tagged BBC, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Minster, Dr Ronny Krippner
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97% of south-west London covid patients are unvaccinated
Nearly every adult hospitalised with covid-19 in Croydon and south-west London over the past two months had not been fully vaccinated with two doses and a booster. Local operational figures for five major NHS hospitals in this part of London … Continue reading
‘Magnificence of Croydon’: Town Hall video ignores the cuts
This video has been produced by Croydon Council to accompany a report from Croydon’s director of public health. In her first annual report since the covid-19 outbreak, Rachel Flowers praises Croydon residents, communities, schools and businesses for their continued strength … Continue reading
Vax roll-out accelerated – but not in Purley, Kenley or Coulsdon
The NHS vaccination programme cranked up an extra gear or two this week, as part of the national effort to offer millions of Britons a covid-19 booster vaccine by the end of the year in a race to protect the … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Kenley, Purley
Tagged coronavirus, Coulsdon, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Kenley, Purley
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Government rolls out 1m daily jabs against Omicron ‘tidal wave’
The government is calling in the army in an effort to double the number of covid booster jabs delivered to more than 1million per day between now and the New Year in a desperate effort to limit the spread and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS Trust, London Borough of Croydon, Omicron, Rachel Flowers
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Omicron case in Sutton; Government slow to notify council
Positive covid cases in Croydon up by one-third in a week, as senior adviser warns that government’s slow, ‘wait and see’ approach is ‘biggest mistake you can make in a pandemic’ The discovery of a case of the Omicron variant … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Sutton Council
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Omicron, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory
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Time to mask up as covid positive cases are on the rise again
Rachel Flowers, the council’s director of public health, has issued an appeal to Croydon residents to adopt fully the latest rules on face mask-wearing in shops and on public transport, as the borough has seen cases of covid-19 increase again … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon NHS Trust, Rachel Flowers
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Anti-vax conspiracy theories are covid’s ticking time bomb
It is not just new strains of the coronavirus which are hampering Croydon’s public health efforts to reduce its spread, but also dangerous and deliberate misinformation from the United States When a TikTok user filmed himself shouting “liar” at England’s … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Brown, Asian Resource Centre of Croydon, Community associations, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Andrew Brown, Asian Resource Centre of Croydon, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon NHS Trust, Croydon University Hospital, Ima Miah, Mayday Hospital, QAnon
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Trump-like far-right create covid dangers on Croydon march
Boxpark was the starting point on Saturday for a march organised by QAnon-style conspiracy theorists who bullied members of the public queuing to get their booster jab, attacked a council covid testing stall and intimidated staff in the Whitgift Centre. … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Health, Whitgift Centre
Tagged anti-vaxers, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS, Marc Lister, Steve Bannon
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Croydon In Crisis: Council can no longer cope with basic tasks
It was on November 11, 2020, that Croydon issued a Section114 Notice, effectively admitting they were bankrupt. Twelve months on, and now the council struggles to fulfil even the most basic of administrative services. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES Resident endures … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Libraries, Report in the Public Interest, Section 114 notice
Tagged Children's Services, coronavirus, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Libraries, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Purley Pool
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